Is Dumbledore Gay? Depends on Definitions of ?Is? and ?Gay?

[sistermagpie]

> Tonks:
> Thank you for that article. It says what I have been trying to say, 
> and says it better, of course. A wizard at DD's level is above such 
> mundane things as sex. The article compares DD to other great 
> wizards who are also celebate. 
> 
> Also we must not forget that DD was an Alchemist. That is about 
> lofty things and higher stages of development. Too bad Hans isn't 
> still on this list, he would point that out also.
> 
> Tonks_op
> Who has always seen DD as a monk. He reminds me of an Abbot I once 
> knew.

Magpie:
I actually thought that was a silly part of the article (not the only 
silly part, imo!). I have no problem with your imagining Dumbledore as 
a monk--it's as good an imaginary Dumbledore as any. I just didn't 
like the idea that if he's interested in important things he must also 
be above sex. Why would that be necessary? Sure there are people not 
that interested and I don't think it's bad to write a character that 
way if that's the character, but it seems a bit weird to assume that 
the smarter you are, or the more committed to high ideals...the 
more "above" sex you must be. Why even "above" sex, as if sex is some 
lower form of behavior. He's not above enjoying candy, couldn't he 
also have an interest in sex, one that he acts on in a responsible 
way? His one love affair, if one takes JKR's interview as truth, would 
be when he was a teenager anyway--and may not have even been acted on.

One of my pet peeves about this whole thing is just the way that 
sometimes the fact that he would be gay makes his sexuality different. 
If Nicholas Flamel could be married, I don't see why the gay wizard 
couldn't also fit in romance if he met someone he loved. Voldemort 
seems like the most celibate wizard in canon and it seems like that's 
part of his disdain for regular life and people in general.

-m

-m